Discard PING from WAN side

Canorro

Posted 21 March 2008 - 01:34 AM

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Ok so my router say if i discard ping it could be safer.here is what it say
Block WAN Ping

When you "Block WAN Ping", you are causing the public WAN IP address on the DI-524 to not respond to ping commands. Pinging public WAN IP addresses is a common method used by hackers to test whether your WAN IP address is valid.

So what are the cons and pros>?

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Neil Jones

Posted 21 March 2008 - 06:41 PM

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Realistically you're more likely to get run down by a bus than get discovered on the internet by a "hacker". Bearing in mind buses pass millions of people every day and a tenth of one percent of them will have an incident, then the internet is used by billions of people every hour of the day, so you're more likely to get spotted by something you've downloaded rather than them coming to you.

Canorro

Posted 21 March 2008 - 09:03 PM

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Realistically you're more likely to get run down by a bus than get discovered on the internet by a "hacker". Bearing in mind buses pass millions of people every day and a tenth of one percent of them will have an incident, then the internet is used by billions of people every hour of the day, so you're more likely to get spotted by something you've downloaded rather than them coming to you.

Haha maybe your rigth.But let say for a reason you have a lot of hackers friends and you gave you computer to him but he didnt tell you he was a hacker.What would you do>?Or you wanna be a hacker who hacks hackers^-^

Neil Jones

Posted 22 March 2008 - 03:56 PM

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Think about what you've just written.
If you should know a hacker friend, why would he hack you? And why would you give him your computer? If he is a hacker, he'd have his own computer. What would he want with yours? Far easier to come round your house and sit in front of it.

Canorro

Posted 22 March 2008 - 04:19 PM

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Think about what you've just written.If you should know a hacker friend, why would he hack you? And why would you give him your computer? If he is a hacker, he'd have his own computer. What would he want with yours? Far easier to come round your house and sit in front of it.

He would hack me for fun.Because he wanted to fix some stuff that was wrong..But i guest maybe he doesnt want to hack me it just a guest.